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Recognition for Boatbuilders

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

A commemorative vellum has been awarded by the Institution to Messrs.

J. Samuel White & Co. Ltd., who built 134 life-boats for the Institution between 1898 and 1964. Last year the firm ceased building wooden boats at...

Category: Awards

Lieutenant Alphonse Herbez

Date: Winter 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 357

Galway Bay.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 5th of February, 1951, the Coast Life-Saving Service reported a French trawler on the rocks one and a half miles south-east of Kilronan pier. Another French trawler had called at Kilronan...

Dainty

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

FIRST SERVICE CALL TO NEW IRISH LIFEBOAT Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, a report was received that spectators at the Howth sailing club regatta had seen a yacht in distress. There was a strong ebb tide...

Lee Johnson

Date: Spring 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 480

Lee Johnson, the owner of a hairdressing salon in Lymington, raised £180 for the lifeboats with a raffle for a doll's house. He sold £90 worth of tickets himself and Lymington ladies' guild sold the rest.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

After Coxswain! Mechanic Frank

Date: Spring 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 484

After Coxswain! Mechanic Frank Ide of Poole lifeboat had made the draw for the RNLI's twenty-first national lottery. Cub Scout Iain Winslade, from Tolpuddle, presented to him a cheque for £40. With them is Rear Admiral W. J. Graham,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Old

Date: Winter 1978

Volume: 45

Issue: 463

Old... - View image in PDF

(Above) Denmark: When the old lifeboat from Nymindegab, Jutland, returned home to be the principal exhibit in the old lifeboat house, now converted into a museum, her crew were there to meet her.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Coastal Radio Ltd

Date: Winter 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 447

-the instant communication and precise navigation equipment that takes the rough with the smooth Coastal Radio Limited, Westway.

Chelmsford, Essex CM1 3BH.

Telephone: (0245) 65533.

A...

Category: Advertisement

Avon Rubber Co Ltd

Date: Spring 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 448

Keep the floating population floating When it's a matter of life and death, you can't afford anything but the best. And the best is an Avon rigid hull inflatable.

Rigid Hull Inflatables are now in service with the R...

Category: Advertisement

Briar Rose

Date: March 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 423

Buckle, Banff shire- On 10th October, 1967, the life-boat Laura Moncur rescued the crew of eight from the fishing boat Briar Rose for which special awards were granted. A full account of this service appears on pag•: 11..

Patchwork Blanket

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

With the aid of her fellow members of the Bexleyheath, Kent, Methodist Sisterhood, Mrs. Phyllis M. Dewey, aged 86, has made a patchwork blanket for the crew of Dover's new 44-foot steel life-boat Faithful Forester..

Category: Donations